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| Russian Federation Council names the main condition for negotiations with Ukraine |
| 2023-07-08 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] Russia can start negotiations with Ukraine only after it accepts Moscow's conditions, Vladimir Dzhabarov, First Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs, said . He stated this on July 7 to a correspondent of IA Regnum. According to him, when the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov , in his statement on Friday, just pointed out that Russia "never closed the door to the negotiation process," however, Kiev set such conditions for the start of these negotiations that no one would even discuss. “Negotiations with Ukraine can begin after it accepts Russia's conditions. But the conditions of Russia have not changed - this is the denazification and demilitarization of Ukraine. We are already doing this, but we need to bring this work to the end,” Dzhabarov stated. In his opinion, sooner or later negotiations will have to take place, but by that time the Ukrainian regime must either capitulate or leave the political arena. Dzhabarov stressed that Moscow did not really close the doors to negotiations, but the conditions that Ukraine puts forward (return to its 1991 borders, reach the Crimea, etc.) will not even be discussed. With such requirements, no one will negotiate with Ukraine. “Negotiations should ensure the security of the Russian Federation - to ensure that we have a friendly or neutral state next to us. And not an aggressor state, which is Ukraine, ” the senator believes. The member of the Federation Council is convinced that in order for Ukraine to be ready for such negotiations, it is necessary that Western countries stop supplying Kiev with lethal weapons, stop financing all its military operations and stop inciting Ukraine to hostile and aggressive actions. Dzhabarov believes that the Kyiv regime has only one prospect - to become a friendly state to Russia, to abandon aggressive plans, primarily from joining NATO. “Ukraine's desire to join NATO puts an end to any attempts at peace negotiations. And the sooner the West understands this, the less victims and upheavals there will be in Europe,” Dzhabarov summed up. Earlier, IA Regnum reported that Peskov made his statement about Russia's readiness for the negotiation process , commenting on the statement of the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko , who suggested that Russian-Ukrainian negotiations could begin in the fall of 2023. At the same time, Peskov stressed that so far there are no prospects for starting this process. In turn, Lukashenka did not rule out that in autumn the situation would change so much that it would force Kiev to sit down at the negotiating table. In his opinion, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has already realized that he cannot defeat Russia. At the same time, as Lukashenko believes, Zelensky will insist on admitting Ukraine to NATO and present claims to the West regarding funding and new weapons. |
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